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Indonesia confirms 92nd bird flu death


AFP
Wednesday, December 12, 2007


    

JAKARTA -- A 28-year-old woman from the outskirts of the Indonesian capital has been confirmed as dy

ing of bird flu, raising the toll in the nation worst affected by H5N1 to 92, the health ministry said Tuesday.

Two laboratory tests on the woman, who died Monday at a hospital in Jakarta, showed that she was infected with the highly pathogenic virus, a statement from the ministry's bird flu information center said.

Two positive results of tests on blood and tissue samples from a victim are needed before Indonesian authorities confirm a bird flu infection.

 

 

 


      








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